Search

The collection includes publications, meeting minutes, and photographs related to the American bicentennial.

The collection consists largely of publications regarding the American Revolution bicentennial, the celebration of the bicentennial in Michigan, and Michigan Week before and during the bicentennial, 1963-1968 and 1971-1989. Materials include magazine and newspaper articles (copies), newsletters, reports, a few photographs and meeting minutes, and other materials from federal, Michigan, and local bicentennial councils and commissions. A large, although incomplete, run of the Bicentennial Times [Wash.: American Revolution Bicentennial Administration], 1974-1976 (Scattered) is also included, as are a number of special or collectors’ editions of bicentennial newspapers, fliers, bulletins, a calendar, and an issue of Superman Salutes the Bicentennial, 1976. Most of the materials were mailed to John Cumming, who later donated them to the Clarke.

Processing Note: Numerous, miscellaneous generic advertising fliers were withdrawn from the collection during processing because they were of minimal importance in documenting the bicentennial.

The collection documents the Michigan American Revolution Bicentennial Commission in committee records and grant applications, Marguerite R. Carlin in correspondence, and Central Michigan University buildings, events, and people in slides.

The Carlin Papers include meeting minutes and attachments, agendas, grant applications, correspondence and reports of the MARBC, and related correspondence of Carlin, 1972-1978 and undated. Also included are 54 color slides, mostly undated, of Central Michigan University (CMU)'s Warriner Hall (6), football games and one of the marching band (12), homecoming parades, 1959 and undated, (10), the Carlin family, 1964 and undated, and Margo Carlin with people from CMU and foreign countries on trips abroad, 1979 and undated. The papers are organized alphabetically by committee and then chronologically. The slides are organized by topic.